digital collection
A museum is distinguished by a collection of often unique objects that forms the core of its activities for exhibitions, education, research, etc. This differentiates it from an archive or library, where the contents may be more paper-based, repla ...
of books published in
Great Britain
Great Britain is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean off the northwest coast of continental Europe. With an area of , it is the largest of the British Isles, the largest European island and the ninth-largest island in the world. It i ...
during the 18th century.
Gale
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microfilm
Microforms are scaled-down reproductions of documents, typically either photographic film, films or paper, made for the purposes of transmission, storage, reading, and printing. Microform images are commonly reduced to about 4% or of the origin ...
reproductions of 136,291 titles. Documents scanned after 2002 are added to a second collection, ECCO II. As of January 2014, ECCO II comprises 46,607 titles.
Conversions and access
So far 2,231 texts have been released free to the public through the work of the
University of Michigan
, mottoeng = "Arts, Knowledge, Truth"
, former_names = Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania (1817–1821)
, budget = $10.3 billion (2021)
, endowment = $17 billion (2021)As o ...
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Text Creation Partnership
The Text Creation Partnership (TCP) is a not-for-profit organization based in the library of the University of Michigan . Its purpose is to produce large-scale full-text electronic resources (especially in the humanities) on behalf of both member i ...
. Rather than OCR, they rekey the texts and tag them with TEI. Their aim is to enable improved access to a fraction of the collection: they are making SGML/
XML
Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a markup language and file format for storing, transmitting, and reconstructing arbitrary data. It defines a set of rules for encoding documents in a format that is both human-readable and machine-readable ...
text editions for 10,000 books. In addition to the free version, subscription access is also offered.
Text analytic tools are available on this subset through the Text Analysis Portal for Research project.
One of the "Text Creation Partners", the
University of Oxford
, mottoeng = The Lord is my light
, established =
, endowment = £6.1 billion (including colleges) (2019)
, budget = £2.145 billion (2019–20)
, chancellor ...
, has converted the public domain texts into free, publicly accessible versions, in accordance with the
Text Encoding Initiative
The Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) is a text-centric community of practice in the academic field of digital humanities, operating continuously since the 1980s. The community currently runs a mailing list, meetings and conference series, and main ...
P5 guidelines, and makes them available in a variety of file formats, including HTML and EPUB via the
Oxford Text Archive
Oxford Text Archive (OTA) is an archive of electronic texts and other literary and language resources which have been created, collected and distributed for the purpose of research into literary and linguistic topics at the University of Oxford, E ...
.
Cross-search is also available from
ProQuest
ProQuest LLC is an Ann Arbor, Michigan-based global information-content and technology company, founded in 1938 as University Microfilms by Eugene B. Power. ProQuest is known for its applications and information services for libraries, provid ...
for those who subscribe to both Early English Books Online and ECCO.ProQuest offers ProQuest announced an agreement with Gale, part of Cengage Learning, to connect its respective digital research databases of early modern English books via cross-search technology.
Online
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January 1, 2008.
Reviews
See also
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American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
The American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) is an academic society for humanities research related to the "long" eighteenth century, from the later seventeenth through the early nineteenth centuries. ASECS was established in 1969, ...
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Book scanning
Book scanning or book digitization (also: magazine scanning or magazine digitization) is the process of converting physical books and magazines into digital media such as images, electronic text, or electronic books (e-books) by using an imag ...
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British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
The British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (BSECS) is an interdisciplinary scholarly society founded in 1971 and based in the United Kingdom which promotes the study of all aspects of eighteenth-century history and culture. Its members are ...
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Burney Collection
The Burney Collection consists of over 1,270 17th-18th century newspapers and other news materials, gathered by Charles Burney, most notable for the 18th-century London newspapers. The original collection, totalling almost 1 million pages, is held ...
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English Short-Title Catalogue
The English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC) is a union short-title catalogue of works published between 1473 and 1800, in Britain and its former colonies, notably those in North America, and primarily in English, drawing on the collections of the ...
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Books in the United Kingdom
History
In 1477 William Caxton in Westminster printed '' The Dictes or Sayengis of the Philosophres,'' considered "the first dated book printed in England."
The history of the book in the United Kingdom has been studied from a variety of cultu ...
References
* Levack, Kinley. Digital ECCOs of the eighteenth century.
EContent
Information Today, Inc., is an American publishing company. It publishes Internet and technology magazines, newsletters, books, directories and online products.
Information Today was previously known as Learned Information, Inc. Learned Informa ...
. November 1, 2003.
* Poyntz, Nick. The future of the past: digital technology is rapidly changing the nature and scope of historical enquiry for both academics and enthusiasts. introduces a new series that examines these revolutionary developments.
History Today
''History Today'' is an illustrated history magazine. Published monthly in London since January 1951, it presents serious and authoritative history to as wide a public as possible. The magazine covers all periods and geographical regions and pub ...
. April 1, 2010.
* Martin, Shawn Introduction Doing Translation History in EEBO and ECCO Early Modern Literary Studies. 14.2/Special Issue 17 September 1, 2008—papers from a conference called Bringing Text Alive: The Future of Scholarship, Pedagogy, and Electronic Publication about how databases including ECCO have impacted scholarship